Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
Behind the Mask is an exciting collection of short stories about the everyday lives of superheroes. Ranging from laugh-out-loud funny to deliciously dark, these stories are about the ordinary day-to-day challenges facing these extraordinary individuals growing up, growing old, relationships, parenting, coping with that age-old desire to fit in when, let s face it, they don't.
“Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut” by Cat Rambo, copyright © 2009 by Cat Rambo, originally published in Strange Horizons (October 26, 2009);
“Destroy the City with Me Tonight” by Kate Marshall, copyright © 2017 by Kate Marshall;
“Fool” by Keith Frady, copyright © 2017 by Keith Frady;
“Pedestal” by Seanan McGuire, copyright © 2017 by Seanan McGuire;
“As I Fall Asleep” by Aimee Ogden, copyright © 2017 by Aimee Ogden;
“Meeting Someone in the 22nd Century or Until the Gears Quit Turning” by Jennifer Pullen, copyright © 2017 by Jennifer Pullen;
“Inheritance” by Michael Milne, copyright © 2017 by Michael Milne;
“Heroes” by Lavie Tidhar, copyright © 2016 by Lavie Tidhar, originally published in Strange Horizons (September 19, 2016);
“Madjack” by Nathan Crowder, copyright © 2017 by Nathan Crowder;
“Quintessential Justice” by Patrick Flanagan, copyright © 2017 by Patrick Flanagan;
“The Fall of the Jade Sword” by Stephanie Lai, copyright © 2017 by Stephanie Lai;
“Origin Story” by Carrie Vaughn, copyright © 2016 by Carrie Vaughn, LLC, originally published in Lightspeed Magazine (April 2016);
“Eggshells” by Ziggy Schutz, copyright © 2017 by Ziggy Schutz;
“Salt City Blue” by Chris Large, copyright © 2017 by Chris Large;
“Birthright” by Stuart Suffel, copyright © 2017 by Stuart Suffel;
“The Smoke Means It’s Working” by Sarah Pinsker, copyright © 2017 by Sarah Pinsker;
“Torch Songs” by Keith Rosson, copyright © 2017 by Keith Rosson;
“The Beard of Truth” by Matt Mikalatos, copyright © 2017 by Matt Mikalatos;
“Over an Embattled City” by Adam R. Shannon, copyright © 2017 by Adam R. Shannon;
“Origin Story” by Kelly Link, copyright © 2006 by Kelly Link, originally published in A Public Space (Winter 2006) and reprinted in Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble (Random House; 2015)
- Author
- Tricia Reeks, Kyle Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Aimee Ogden, Jennifer Pullen, Michael Milne, Lavie Tidhar, Nathan Crowder, Patrick Flanagan, Stephanie Lai, Carrie Vaughn, Ziggy Schutz, Chris Large, Stuart Suffel, Sarah Pinsker, Keith Rosson, Matt Mikalatos, Adam R. Shannon, Kelly Link, Cat Rambo, Keith Frady, Kate Alice Marshall
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Meerkat Press, LLC
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780996626262
- Genres
- fantasy, anthologies, superheroes, fiction, adult, unfinished
- Release date
- 2017
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